Sivakami Sivakumar
Sivakami is a former IGC Senior Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning Officer. Sivakami Holds an MA in Conflict, Security and Development from King’s College London and a BA in International History from the LSE.
Content by Sivakami Sivakumar
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Blog post
Event highlights: The impact of COVID-19 on informal and migrant workers in India
In IGC’s third online public event on addressing the economic challenges of COVID-19 in developing countries, we turn to India, where a nationwide lockdown amidst the COVID-19 pandemic has critically dislocated its migrant population. On 24 March 2020, the central government of India imposed a lockdown and closed businesses when cases of COVID-19 in the country...
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Publication - Sub-thematic summary
Female labour force participation: A summary of IGC research
This sub-thematic summary highlights the IGC’s research on female labour force participation over the past 10 years. Despite substantial increases in female labour force participation across the world in the last century, the global labour force participation for women stands at 49% in 2018, 27 percentage points below that of men. The slower decline in women’s...